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Author - James Weldon Johnson
Quotes by : James Weldon Johnson
negroes
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness....
black
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
Justice
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they....
20th century music
American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous....
Short
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
Soul
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later,....
Me
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in....
childhood memories
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory,....
reading
There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater....
thought provoking
The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented....
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